Our discourse community in English Composition 1 allows us to uphold certain values, such as clarifying the meaning of ourselves and cultivating joy in writing and learning. I will be focusing on the identity of our discourse community and how certain works can help us understand why we are involved in this group, as well as how our values impact ourselves in and outside of class with resources from Our Discourse Community Values, What Is Literacy?, as well as We Are Many.
The identity of our discourse community can be explained from What is Literacy? Which explains the social institution of discourse linguistics, describing it as "made up of concrete things like people, books and buildings, abstract things like bodies of knowledge, values, norms, and beliefs; mixtures of concrete and abstract things like universities, journals, and publishers, as well as shared history and shared stories." This can be related to our discourse community as we share our own stories, read works of writing, and write our own essays relating to our own experiences. Our writer's identity is found in our work, shaping and revolving around our discourse community. In our discourse community values, it is stated that we connect past, present, and future writing histories and knowledges. This can be shown in the works of literature we analyze and interpret in class. Whether it is from poems, short stories like Hills like White Elephants or My Name is Margaret, we read through stories from different time periods to connect them to others or understand them through present-day analysis. Another stated value is of clarifying meaning in oneself. This value can be shown through our blog posts, memoirs, and essays in which we understand the meaning behind different works of writing, as well as our own personal interpretations of them. We can also analyze We Are Many in terms of self-reflection: But when I call upon my DASHING BEING, out comes the same OLD LAZY SELF, and so I never know just WHO I AM, nor how many I am, nor WHO WE WILL BE BEING. I would like to be able to touch a bell and call up my real self, the truly me, because if I really need my proper self, I must not allow myself to disappear. In this work, the author speaks about not allowing himself to disappear, and wishes to call out to his true self in order to not stray away. Through our works, we manage to dig into our true thoughts and how we often feel without turning into something we are not. Through writing in our discourse community, we show who we are as our own people, whether it is from our thoughts, feelings, or ideals, we come to terms with ourselves in our values and works. Through our memoirs, we show a personal time in our lives that affected us in some sort of way which can be related to showing our true selves as the poem states. In our works, we each have our own opinions or thoughts in how a piece of writing could be interpreted, going back to our discourse values in self-identity and making meaning of these pieces of writing.
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Daniel Weaver-Cooke
3/25/2019 11:24:38 am
I really like the way you separated yet brought together each of these pieces of writing to explain how it speaks to our class's discourse identity.
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Ashley
3/25/2019 02:41:15 pm
I like how you related the information from the readings to how our classroom community functions.
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Lashad
3/25/2019 06:51:33 pm
I like how you used the readings to show the similarities in our classroom. Nice work
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Kenya McDuffie
5/5/2019 12:51:52 pm
Thank you for your insight and how you brought the two together. Nice work
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